Continued Thread

[blackpowder]

Kinda like it when your stirred up.
This is what I mean when I say that in the end, the _ _ _ did it to themselves with the help of people like Cptn Oblivious.
And sadly that legacy of attitude lingers within the industry regarding the railroads.
Remember how many years between Toms first strike and 2013? Hope it doesnt take that long this time.

[vvalk]

Remember captn obvious loved the CWB because he was give special treatment. The height of hypocrisy. Either that or he is such a small farmer he shouldn't even be on agriville. Remember he has never had to carried over grain during the 70 years the single desk existed

[Oliver88]

i would of assumed most farms held over grain in the Otto Lang days?

[parsley]

I considered not signing as well, Brave. But then I recalled how the Wheat Growers worked hand in hand with organic growers, (somewhat like giraffe and antelope hitched together) as we worked towards a common goal.

Maybe reconsider signing, will you, and whoever is elected, it's necessary to work with them even if you don't trust them. Netanyahu does it everyday. Pars

[Braveheart]

I'm just not comfortable with putting my name on lists these days.

[parsley]

Blacky, Im kinda fun when I get stirred up. Jackson went on his CWB hunger strike in 1996. Bad omen for Hunter Harrison. Look what happened to the CWB. If I were him him, I'd get my wife to sew a Tommy-doll and begin putting pins in it. Pars

[parsley]

vvalk, there were lots of farmers who wined and dined on pooling account money, and got special perks because they sang wheat Board hymns. The organic growers a lot of shared info, which was often revealed marked partisanship.

And don't discount small farmers, many make fine coin. Small can mean lucrative just as much as large can. And small can mean dirt poor, just easily as large bankrupted land barons. Simply acting wealthy doesn't always represent wealth.

As far as I'm concerned, all farmers, big or small landowners or with big or small balls, should be welcomed to have their say on AV. Pars

[tweety]

Really Errol? You're cheering that?

Please explain how value added processing with long term stable employment is a bad thing for Canada?

[sawfly]

talk about fines. 150,000$
we get fined 1$ a bushel for every one we had on our farms. last year.
in stolen basis.

you can see why the cwbs maybe less than stellar performance.
is starting to look like the good old days.

the board did not steal $150,000 every year .

it just boggles my mind , when you conservatives create the transportation mess.
and then you bitch about it.

what did you think would happen creating this duopoly in rail transport?
( oh i forgot, you all said full compensatory rates, would fix it)
how did that work out for ya.

get out your grade 12 economics textbook, and look up monopoly.

kinda like what tom wants to do with the seed business.
and then he will wonder when it all goes wrong , again
amazing. .

there is a word for doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

[blackpowder]

Ya know vvalk, I dont know or care who CO is. I respect his opinion and version of facts. I've dealt before with people who have an altered reality. He likely wouldnt have any standard diagnosis per se. Pig headedness and hypocrisy is not a disorder. Our denial/questions of his reality simply serves to reinforce it. A well worn logic loop if you will. So comfortable for him. Screening at high school may have placed him in a more suitable profession. Forensic accountant, Canada Revenue Agency perhaps.

[parsley]

Oliver, there were times when CWB quotas were so small, it was terribly difficult to make 'ends meet'. That was what Wheat Board marketing was. Low prices. Poor quotas.

Liberal Minister Otto Lange invented the LIFT program, whereby seeded acres were reduced. PC Minister Alvin Hamilton flew over to China and started selling them wheat in spite of the fact they were communists. Ag Minister Liberal Eugene Whelan cross crossed rural Canada telling farmers that eating beef would make us ferocious. It did.

Brave, my, my, I declare I really couldn't bear seeing you uncomfortable. Twitch, scratch, wiggle. Pars.

[blackpowder]

Sawfly, would it be possible to hold your nose the next time you sneeze? It might expand your horizons.
The constipation that is costing us $1 has happened before in secret. One symptom of a long chronic illness. Infecting all parties over decades.
I see many positive changes with many more to come. Without party partisanship I hope.